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Scholarships help to beat the funding crisis

Institutions and Inns are investing in their future with scholarships and bursaries for talented students

Grania Langdon-Down

January 22 2015, 12:10am, The Times

Eunice Becker and her youngest child, Mia

Qualifying as a solicitor or barrister is both highly competitive and hugely expensive. But with careful research, aspiring lawyers can find scholarships and bursaries that can give them not just vital financial help but also great prestige.

The available pool runs to millions, with awards based on a wide range of eligibility criteria — some purely on academic merit, others on financial need or a mixture of both — across all stages of qualification.

The biggest pot of more than £5 million is raised by members of the Inns of Court and other benefactors. The former lord chief justice, Lord Judge, now treasurer of Middle Temple, has called for a debate on whether the money should be focused on those struggling through pupillage and the…

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